Law

Teva continues to sign compromises in the opioid case - which indirectly caused the deaths of 500,000 drug users in the U.S., amid addiction to these substances - that has plagued the stock in recent years. Acquired by ABBVIE -0.36% in 2019. The two companies will jointly pay $ 161.5 million. In practice, Teva will pay the state $ 75 million over a 15-year period, along with hassle and legal costs of $ 8 million. Teva will also supply the Narcan drug over a 10-year period worth $ 27 million. West Virginia has already reached agreements with Johnson & Johnson, by the way

Ben & Jerry's announcement almost a year ago that it would no longer sell ice cream in alleged "occupied Palestinian territories" continues to provoke outrage, as it finds itself a target. Ben & Jerry's initial announcement caused a large number of state pension funds and other sources to get rid of the company while devaluing its investment potential. According to some estimates, Unilever lost about 8% of its value of more than $ 4 billion in the six days following the Israeli announcement. It is unclear whether the argument will have weight in court. Unilever acquired Ben & Jerry's in...

The Knesset plenum opened on Thursday morning and its members will vote in the second and third readings on the Knesset Dissolution Law. The plenum will not advance the Metro Act and the laws necessary to obtain a visa exemption when traveling to the United States. Live broadcast from the Knesset. The vote was supposed to take place last night until midnight, but it was postponed due to the lack of agreements between the opposition and the coalition on laws to be promoted in cooperation despite the dispersal, most notably the Metro Act, laws required to promote U.S. visa exemptions and...

One week after the signing of an agreement between the Israeli franchisee of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's and the global Unilever corporation, an arrangement that will allow him to sell the ice cream he also produces in the settlements, the American company is trying to thwart the move. Ben & Jerry's has sued its parent company Unilever with the aim of blocking the same move, saying the sale of ice cream across the Green Line "does not match its values". According to the lawsuit, this "undermines the social integrity that Ben & Jerry's has built over decades." Five members of the...

Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg is the head of the local authority that was questioned on Monday by the National Fraud Investigation Unit (JHA) in Lahav 433 on suspicion of a case involving offenses of fraud and breach of trust, extortion, abuse of power, bribery and conspiracy to commit a crime. Allowed for publication this morning. Along with Greenberg, who previously served as a police detective, three of his associates were questioned

udge Michal Agmon Gonen of the Tel Aviv District Court ruled today (Wednesday) against the prosecution's position on a preliminary question that arose in the Bezeq-yes case, in which an indictment was filed against Shaul Alovich and other defendants, alleging criminal conduct in the manner in which interested parties were promoted

The Supreme Court today (Wednesday) shortened the sentence of the former Deputy Minister of the Interior, Faina Kirschenbaum from ten to seven and a half years in prison. Kirschenbaum was convicted of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in the Israel Beitenu case. In addition to this, the judges also shortened the sentence of Rami Cohen, the former director general of the Ministry of Agriculture who was convicted in the case of accepting bribes and other crimes - from 30 to 18 months in prison

The Consumer Protection Authority imposed a fine of NIS 5,598,720 on Domicar Ltd. (Budget Car Rental) for misleading consumers under aggravating circumstances: concealing a material detail in the transaction. It is alleged that Budget sold 93 vehicles that were used as rental vehicles, which it presented as vehicles that were used as leasing vehicles to 93 different consumers. In addition, the company published 28 cars on the company website and on the Focus website, presenting them as leasing vehicles, while in practice they were used as rental vehicles, and sometimes even as leasing...

The Supreme Court ruled Sunday that opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu will be required to return money given to him and his wife by his cousin Natan Milikovski to finance their legal expenses during his tenure as prime minister. The Supreme Court explained that these funds were given in violation of the Public Service Law - known as the "Gift Law" - and therefore Netanyahu must return to the estate of his late cousin $270,000 out of the $300,000 he received from him

Three residents of the north gave sensitive information to Hamas in Turkey - and planned to damage the operation of the Cellcom network during a war or a military operation. This is according to the indictment submitted at noon (Thursday) by the Cyber ​​Department of the State Attorney's Office at the end of an investigation by the Shin Bet. According to the indictment, R. A., one of the accused, has been working since 2004 at Cellcom as a software engineer - a position in which he received very broad access privileges for computer systems and information systems in the company. Another...